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' > > ^ ' V/ ' V v«H SS>*s iy:;; jf- i£X Ik. Hcilenry Pialndealer. PCBMStlRI) BT V. 6. SCKREINKJB. HoRES&Y, ILLINOIS. IT you can't be cheerful, be as cheer­ ful as you can. He who weds and runs away no more should seek a wedding day. A nation cannot sink lower than Its worst people or rise higher than it* beet citizens. It is going to take a good deal of firmness to keep the Hague conference from breaking up In a fight. Vladivostok imported last year from Australia and the Argentine republic more than 12,000,000 pounds of meat. A Seattle girl has traveled 3,000 miles to marry a Connecticut preach­ er. He ought to be good when she Sets him. These mismated couples who kill each other and themselves rrjight with propriety lift up their, eyes aLd see how wide the world is. 1 The record of the Alps, of eighty people killed and twenty-two injured during tjhe season, almost puts them In the automobile class. A million tons of paper are used * year in the printing industry of the country. That looks as if we, as A nation, were reading some. A property owner in Kingston, a London suburb, has posted a notice that "no grandchildren or cats" win be allowed on his premises. The later the fruit the better it has fared this year. Grapes and winter pear* for instance, are a pretty fair «mp. It was the early blossom that the frosts caught. L>et .all who think they have uuunfl «d the depths of human woe take heart In contemplating the fate flt Ube •Revada man whose wife gets {trunk frequently by eating onions. Many .a man who can comprehend perfectly the heinousness of illegal liquor selling in a beer joint after ibours «can not see the slightest impro­ priety in his automobile's showing what is in her. Gov. Woodruff of Conneticort that people are now so thoroughly Informed that if they are robbed by financial schemers it is entirely their «vn fault. This seems to materially reduce the ranks of the innocent fn- Wtor. The men behind the muskets .art irrotesting against their paltry sti­ pend of |13 a month. Better pay and fcetter treatment, remarks the St. Loots Globe-Democrat, will give the • department better soldiers. The news that the treasury depart­ ment has decided to call in all the outstanding $10,060 bills, says the St. Ikouis Times, falls as a harsh and un­ expected blow upon those of us who been collecting souvenir*. Aeronauts are basing vast expecta­ tions upon the aeroplane type of air­ ship, but every public attempt to show what these heavier-than-alr flyers can 4Io has resulted in demonstrating that there is no telling what sort of capers an aeroplane will cut when it lift* Into the air. "The man who is said to have ac­ companied Gen. Phil Sheridan tin his famous ride from Winchester, "twen­ ty miles away," died at his heme in a (Pennsylvania village the other day. He may have accompanied Sheridan «m that historical occasion, but the part he played was quite too small to bring him any personal recognition. -- Cleveland Plain Dealer: A South Dakota town has passed an ordinance forbidding male and female persons to loiter on the steps of .any cimrch, public building or doorwa-y of any store for the purpose of visiting, eating candy ior peanuts, or in any street, alley, or vacant lot, or other obscure place, for the purpose of flirting in the evening. In other words, sayjs the Houston Post, the South Da­ kota idea is to get married people di­ vorced and to embarrass as far as possible the efforts of those who de­ sire tto become mergered. MIMLLTO QUIT JOB MINERS' PRESIDENT WILL HOT RUN FOR REELECTION. HIS HEALTH IS TOO POOR Announcement lb Made In United Mine Workers' Journal--Has Been Head of Organiza­ tion Since 1898. Indianapolis, Ind.--John Mitchell, president of the United Mine' Work­ ers, announced in the current Issue of the United Mine Workers' Journal that he will not be a candidate for re­ election as president. He says in his announcement that he does not re­ gard himself as well enough to attend properly to the office. None of the ex­ ecutive officers of the organization was in the city Thursday, hut it is said at headquarters that Mr. Mitchell will finish his present term as presi­ dent, which expires April 1 of next year. > Mr. Mitchell underwent a surgical operation about six months ago aad it is said that he has hot fully > recov ered and that it Is possible it will be necessary to perform another opera tion. He went to Chicago Tuesday and expected to go from there to La- Salle, 111., Thursday, to consult with a surgeon in regard to the advisabil ity of another operation. His Formal Announcement. Mr. Mitchell's announcement is as follows: "To the Officers and Members of the U. M. W. ©f A,--Greeting: Inasmuch as notices calling for nominations are being sent out from the office of the secretary and in ordrr that all local A Hew York bank cashier stole $80,- 000 iiecause a woman told him to do It. It is wonderful how well men obev women sometimes. There are many cases of this kind con record since the day A Gam took the mpple just to pleaae Eve. tout how tew are the instances at which we have record where men have wandered back from the paths of sin and" pleasure just because a woman told them to! And it is all the more remarkable, too, ^because that has been woman's chief (occupation since she made the acquaintance of man. John Mitchell. unions and members thereof may be In position to express their choice for the office of president, I herewith an-, nounce that I shall not be a candidate for the presidency of your organiza­ tion. "I am prompted to arrive at this decision because I believe that I am no longer well enough to give your in­ terests the consideration their import­ ance demands. "1 shall explain in greater detail in my annual report to our coming con­ vention the causes which impel me to give up the high office to which you have elected me for so many years. "I thank you for the confidence you have reposed in me and I beg you to believe that the advancement of my craft has been my highest ambition. • JOHN MITCHELL, "President U. M. W. of A." Nominations Due November 5." The nominations to which Mr. Mitchell refers are to reach the in­ ternational headquarters in this city not later than November 5 from the various locals of the organization. The referendum vote on the elec­ tion must reach headquarters not later than 20 days prior to the con­ vention, which will be held in this tsity hi January of next year. Mr. Mitchell's term, however, does not ex­ pire until April 1. Mr. Mitchell has been president of the United Mine Workers of America «tooe It is mav permissible in England for a maui to marry fefe wife's sister, tf the wife is dead. Is it not about time, asks the Brooklyn Eagle, to enact a la»r in America for the pro­ tection oC ttoe wife's moi&ter from the alleged man, who never was funny? A San Aaiosio, (Tex.) schawl teach- says it la Impossible to m&ke a pes* grimist of a l2^ear-old boy. Go "way iiiau. Tell one to whitewash 2tM> yards of fence and he will think the erhole world's going to .smash. f.*he big scientist* of the Brlliefc •octitlon continue to be "all torn ,np*' over the question whether the atow, which is the unit matter, is chemical or electrical origin. Yet 11 does »'t seem in keejwng with th<? eternal fitness of thi#$g for such mighty *,ien of learning to quarrel mer a littJe thing like that, -- 1* Paris there is a school which ed- in the fine art of beggary. The«* are the days of the trained *pec toltei, and the man who doesn't know Jww l« •Imply * tftll-6;id«r. • i "* Arbitration Project Wins. The Hague.--The entire Anglo- Ajnerican project providing for ob- Hga.to.ry arbitration was approved at Che Monday evening's session of the oommLtftee on arbitration by 31 votes to S. Reynolds' Alaska Bank Fails. Seattle, Wash.--The H. D. Reynolds bank at Valdez, Alaska, closed its doors Wednesday. Boston and New England capital, furnished largely by school teachers, formed the basis of Reynolds' first exploitation in Alaska. President Kills a Fine Buck. Stamboul, IA.~A courier who ar­ rived from the president's camp on the Tensas late Thursday evening re­ ported that the president had killed a fine back, but otherwfcse the hunt ^Thursday was barren of results. Mufai Hafid Arrests Notables. Mazagan. Morocco.--Mulai Hafid, who was proclaimed sultan o>f Moroc­ co City some time ago, has caused the Arrest here of six notable men belong­ ing to the Azamour tribe, one of whom, is a protege of the German consular officials. CASSIE GHADWICK IS DcAB WOMAN BANK WRECKER EXPIRES IN OHIO,PENITENTIARY. Comatose When the End Cornea** Her 8on Arrives Too Late-- She Left No Statement. . Columbus, G.--Mrs. Cassie Chad- wick, whose amazing financial trans­ actions culminated in the wrecking of an Oberlin bank; died in the wom­ en's ward at the Ohio penitentiary Thursday night at 10:16. ^ Mrs. Chadwlck had been in . a comatose condition for some hours previous to her death and the end came peacefully. No friends or rela­ tives waited at her bedside. Her son, Emil Hoover, had been summoned from Cleveland, but he arrived 15 min­ utes after she expired. Mrs. Chadwick's body was removed to a local undertaking establishment and prepared for burial. It willv be taken to Cleveland Friday by Emil Hoover, but no plans for the funeral Herr Betel Coming to America. Berlin.--Herr Bebel, the socialist leader to the reichstag. Intends to v «it the United States next j'ear and d silver a series of speeches sa social­ ism. Mrs. Cassie Chadwlck. in that city have yet been announced. Mrs. Chadwick embraced the Catholic faith and was baptized a few days be­ fore her death. Thursday morning she received the last anointment. It was frequently reported that Mrs. Chadwick had made a statement regarding her various financial trans­ actions and it was expected that if such a statement had been made it would be given to the public aftet her death. The prison officials declared Thursday night that she had never made any statement so far as They were aware, and T. E. Powell, her attorney here, also said she had made no statement to his knowledge. The decline in Mrs. Chadwick's health began almost from the time she entered the penitentiary on Janu­ ary 12, 1906, sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. She fretted incessant­ ly over her confinement and worried about her troubles until it became al­ most impossible for her to sleep. At times she was so peevish the patience of the prison officials was sorely tried. She was a robust and healthy looking woman when she cathe to the prison, but she gradually wasted away and had lost fully 30 pounds at the time of her death. The physicians declared she was the victim of a total nervous collapse, described in medical science aa neurasthenia. COTTON CONGRESS OPENED. Delegates from Many Lands at Atlan­ ta Conference. Atlanta, Oa.--With delegates pres­ ent representing every phase of the cotton industry from the time it leaves the planters' hands to the time when the product, woven into fabrics, is sent to the markets of the world, and including representatives of many foreign countries, the international conference of cotton spinners and growers met at the state capitol building in this city Monday, More than 500 delegates were pres­ ent, nearly a hundred of these repre­ senting the great mills of Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal, with an aggregate wealth in farm lands, cotton crop and mills of nearly $4,000,000,000. Gov. Hoke Smith of Georgia, in his address of welcome, caused muc^i applause by advocating the ginning, compress­ ing and baling of the cotton on the plantation. ACCIDENT PREVENTS WEDDINQ. Groom's Skull Fractured and Fiancee Nurses Him in Hospital. Marshalltown, la,--Instead of being married Wednesday night, as - was planned, Rev. Leroy E. Gallagher, pastor of the Methodist church of Laurel, la., lies probably fatally in­ jured with his sjtull fractured in a runaway accident while on the way to Green Mountain, where the intend­ ed bride, Ida F. Keese, lives. Guests from a distance were already assem­ bled when news of the accident came. Miss Keese rushed to Marshalltown to nurse her lover in the hospital, lay­ ing aside her wedding gown for the time being. EVIL THAT firop: I USTcrc (JJEW lOOK't Uncle Sam--"Just at I'm getting in a pleasant and sane state of mind that darn fellow bobs up and gets me loco." LUMBERMEN CAUGHT IN NET MEMBERS OF NORTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION INDICTED. Federal Grand Jury at Minneapolis Returns True Bills Charg­ ing Conspiracy. Minneapolis, Minn.--As a result of its investigation of the so-called "little black book" the federal grand jury Tuesday returned 19 indictments against well-known lumber men and officers of the Northwestern Lumber­ men's association, oharging conspiracy to defraud by the use of the mails. The individuals named in the in­ dictment were: Ralph Burnside, who is president of the Northwestern Lumbermen's associatlonMind of the Hawkeye Lumber company, of Oska- loosa, la.; W. G. Hollis, of Minneapo­ lis, secretary of the Western Lumber­ men's association; George C. Ingram, Of Sauk Center, a director in the as­ sociation; Stanley Moore, of Water­ loo, la., director; C. E. Greef, of El- dora, la., up to last year vice presi­ dent of the association; Theo. S. Mc­ Laughlin, general - manager of the Phoenix Lumber company, of Minne­ apolis; Leonard R. Welles, vice presi­ dent of the North Star Lumber com­ pany; George P. Thompson, secretary and treasurer of the North Star Lum­ ber company; E. Hudson, vice presi­ dent and active manager of the Cen­ tral Lumber company, of Minneapolis; I. Nesbit Tate, treasurer of the Wis­ consin Lumber company, of Minne­ apolis; James C. Halville, general manager of the Wisconsin Lumber company; Rufus Clake, general man­ ager of the J. H. Queal Lumber com­ pany, of Minneapolis; R. F. French, of Hawarden^ la., vice president of the J. H. Queal Lumber company; Wil­ liam J. Bruce, manager of the Bruce- Edgerton Lumber company, of Minne­ apolis; J. W. Lucas, of the Hayes- Lucas Lumber compafty, of Winona; O. H. Botsford, geileral manager of the "Laird Norton Yards" of Winona; A. R. Rogers, president of the Rogers Lumber company, of Minneapolis; George H. Rogers, vice president of the Rogers Lumber company; N. S. Darling, president of the Oklahoma Sash and Door factory, of Oklahoma, Okla. STUDENTS IN FOOD TEST, Lose Weight on Diet of Crackers, Milk and Butter. Fowler Flees from Asylum. Seattle, Wash.--Arthur E. Fowler, former secretary of the Japanese- Korean Exclusion League of Seattle, escaped Tuesday from the insane asy­ lum at Steilacoon and made his way to Seattle, where it Is believed he is being taken care of by friends. Fow­ ler was arrested in Bellingham three weeks ago, examined by a lunacy board and sent to the asylum. This followed his fruitless attempts to gain a following for his pet spheme of oriental exclusion through a league of mammoth proportions. Killed Herself for Love. Iola, Kan.--A sensation was sprung here by Samuel F. Whitlow, a grain and feed merchant, when he made a f voluntary confession that Miss May i Sapp, the beautiful 21-year-old daugh­ ter of J. Sapp, a prominent farmer of Jtoran, Kan., had committed suicide because of her unrequited love for him. The gfrl was found dead in the yard of her father's home at Moran on the night of September 27, her throat slashed with a razor that was found close by. Whitlow la 40 year* lid ftttd , married. ' Minneapolis, Minn.--The result of an experimental diet of crackers, milk and butter, on which five (Jni- versity of Minnesota students lived for four days, was announced Wednes­ day. All the men lost in weight, the loss rangine from one-quarter of a pound to three pounds and a half. The men, during the test, ate three meals a day, each meal consisting of 100 grams of crackers, 780 grams of milk and 13.5 grams of butter. Tries to Jump Into Ocean. New York.--Herbert Fletcher De Bon of Chicago attempted to end his life by jumping into the sea in mid- ocean, according to a report made by the officers of the steamer Moltke, which arrived here Thursday from Genoa and Naples. The jfaoltke was three days out when De Bon made the attempt to hurl himself into the sea. He was caught before he had succeeded in carrying out his appar­ ent intention and from that time until the steamer arrived here he was kept under constant observation. Prince Murdered by Peasants. Tiflls.--The body of Prince Tzere- tell, a cousin of Prince I. G. Tzereteli, member of the late douma from Ku- tais, was found hacked to pieces in the suburb of Gorl Thursday. The police have evidence that the crime was committed by peasants. 1 Russian Prisoners Escape. Kutais, Russia.---Thirty-six political prisoners broke out of the local prison here Thursday and got away. They had been incarcerated in secret cells for a year.t Britten and Hargis Go Free. Sandy Hook, Ky.--Jobh Waugh, commonwealth's attorney of this dis­ trict, Wednesday filed a written state­ ment in the case of Commonwealth against Bill Britton and Elbert Har­ gis, charged with complicity in the murder of Dr. B. D. Cox at_ Jackson, the substance of which is that owing to the fact that he bus been unable to secure three of t ue non-resident witnesses it was impossible for him to make out a case and he therefore moved a dismissal. The motion was sustained by Judge Moody. LOANS NEWS TO HIM. P. $. Trainor Never Heard of $20,000,- 000 Charged to Him. New York.--Loans of over $20,000,- 000, which the books of the Southern Pipe Line company show were made to P. S. Trainor between 1899 and 1905, became more puzzling of solu­ tion to Frank B. Kellogg, conducting the federal suit against the Standard Oil company, Thursday, when Mr. Trainor, taking the witness stand in the oil suit, testified that the money had never been paid to him and that he had never heard of the account. The Southern's books show that unsigned vouchers 4fere received for these loans, and that the money was never handed back to the company. Mr. Trainor said that he was formerly crude oil purchasing agent for the Standard Oil Company of New York, and, as such, purchased all the oil and sold it to the refineries. He said he acted in a similar capacity now for the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Mr: Kellogg called Mr. Trainor's at­ tention to the various loans, amount­ ing to over $20j000,000, which were made by the Southern Pipe Line com­ pany and charged to "P. S. Trainor," and asked him to tell all he knew con­ cerning the loans. "f do not know anything about these loans," answered Mr. Trainor.- "I had an oil account with the Southern com­ pany, but no money account. I never gave them any vouchers and never heard anything about the loans." LUSITANIA SETS NEW RECORDS. Crosses in Four Days, 20 Hours, Aver­ aging Nearly 24 Knots. New Yorfc.--The tunarder Lusita- nia, with practically all the transatlan­ tic records to her credit, arHved abeam the Sandy Hook lightship at 1:25 a. m. Friday. The time for the trip from Daunt's Rock to the Sandy Hook light, the offi­ cial course over which the speed trials were made, was fourt.days, 20 hours. The last day's run was apparently the fastest of the trip, the giant liner hit­ ting up her speed to 25 knots an hour over a smooth sea with little wind to interfere with her. The Lusitania's time averages al­ most exactly 24 knots an hour for the entire trip. Her arrival at 1:20, or five minutes earlier than she passed the lightship, would have made her speed exactly 24 knots. TWO MICHIGAN BANKS CLOSE. Private Institutions at Richland and Kalamazoo In Trouble. Kalamazoo, Mich.--The Union bank of Richland and the Bowman bank of this city, both private institutions, have closed their doors with liabil­ ities which are stated to total $195,- 000, of which those of the Union bank amount to> $120,000. The suspension at Richland followed a small run Tuesday, and as ET. A. Bowman, pro­ prietor of the Bowman bank here, was heavily interested in the Richland In­ stitution, he decided to'close to avoid a possible run. First Test Ride Taken. Washington.--The first test ride by army officers, which was ordered by President Roosevelt to determine the horsemanship of those of higher rank than captain, started from Fort Myer at two p. m. Tuesday, and two and a half hours later the party, 29 in num­ ber, was back at the fort, having tra­ versed something over 16 miles of good and 'bad Virginia roads. Rockefeller at Nlece'a Funeral. Cleveland, O.--It Is stated that John D. Rockefeller paid another unexpect­ ed visit to Cleveland Tuesday to at­ tend the funeral of his niece, Miss Laura R. Rudd. Mr. Rockefeller is said to have returned east immediate­ ly after the funeral services. Pay Roll Padder Let Off Easy. Springfield, O.--George F*. Niuffer, former member of the board of pub­ lic service, was sentenced Wednesday to one year in the penitentiary for padding pay. rolls. Decide Not to Raise Price of Bread. Milwaukee.--Notwithstanding the in­ creased cost of flour, the Wisconsin Master Bakers' association Tuesday decided not to increase the price of bread. Instead thereof it was resolved that certain scientific methodg be em­ ployed to eliminate waste. MmmM, Champion College Tennis Mayer. Philadelphia.--G. P, Gp.rdner, of Harvard, Tuesday afternoon won the Intercollegiate lawn tennis champion­ ship in singles on the courts of the Merio^, Cricket club at Haverfor<L mil' • t£*jk 2 • ̂ A ***L RAC*. - Country Pair the Placa it at fta Best, . .. If you would see a horse strap­ ped, booted, braced and geared to the limit, you must seek such a track as you see at the old-time ^ country fair. Here comes an awk- ard fiea bitten gray which never went under 2:50 in his life. He is hobbled and checked and goggled, and hitched up sidewise, lengthwise and crosswise until there is more har- riess than horse. You. wonder how his driver ever got him into this rig­ ging, and how he will get him out again without cutting him free with a jackknife. A farmer with a gray beard and twinkling ' eye ob­ serves to his neighbor: "Last time John Martin had tlfat plug out on the road I told him he had the old cripple overloaded with fust-aidB-to-the-injured. Them straps •that was cal'lated to hoist up his knees must ha' pulled too tight Mid the critter was yanked clean off the ground. What John was gettin' ready for waa a race for fiyin' ma­ chines, not a boss trot."--From "The Country Fair," by David Lansing, in Outing. BABY WASTED TO SKELETON. In Torments with Terrible 80rea on Face and Body--Tore at Flesh --Cured by Cuticura. "My little son, when about ft year and a half old began to have sores come out on his face. They began to come on his arms, then on other parts of his body, and then one came on his chest, worse than the others. At the end of about a year and a half of suf­ fering he grew so bad I had to tie his hands in cloths at night to keep him from scratching the sores and tearing the flesh. He got to be a mere skele­ ton and was hardly able to walk. I sent to the drug store and got a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment, and at the end of about two months the sores were all well. He has never had ap.y sores of any kind since, and only for the Cuticura Rem­ edies my precious child would have died from these terjible sores. I used only one cake of Soap and about three boxes of Ointment. Mrs. Egbert Shel­ don,, R. F. D. No. 1, Woodville, Conn., April 22, 1905." Didn't Need Cyclopedias. The canvasser for a cyclopedia came to the home of a colonel, whosse record he had carefully Studied be­ fore his visit. The colonel was es­ pecially proud of some of his sons, so the canvasser began with: "Those are very fine boys of yours, colonel." "They are," replied the colonel. "I reckon you are ready to bay any­ thing those boys want?" ' "I am ao," said the father of the fine boys. "WelL then, let me sell you this cyclopedia. There's nothing will do your sons BO much good." But the colonel looked at him aghast. "Why, them lads of mine don't need any cyclopedia. They ride mules!" Mr. Malaprop Just Home from Roma. A regular Mr. Malaprop recently came home from his first visit to Eu­ rope. H6 grew enthusiastic about Rome. "It was fine," he declared, "to go Into them churches over there and see the old tombs--cigarrophagusses, they call 'em. And then the Six­ teen chapel is great, and as for the Vaccination, where the pope lives, well!" But his stock of compliments give out when he got to the subject of beggars. "I always refused them pennies," -he said, "because, you see,. I didn't want to set a bad prestige!" Not a Hit as an Improviaer. "Did you ever hear anybody impro- viae?" he asked. "No," said she, and he sat down to the piano and improvised for about an hour and a half. At the end of that tiaa6 he turned around, his face full of expression, and said to her: "What do you think of it?" "Lovely!" she exclaimed. "Beauti­ ful! I never heard anything like it!" But this is what she said to the hall- boy when he was gone: "If that long, lank lunatic who im­ provises asks for me again, you tell him I am out." Flctitioua Impression. "I cannot help thinking of the won­ derful thought displayed In your daughter's .commencement essay last June." "Yes," answered Mr. Cumrox, "judging from that essay, you would think she was as much interested in 'The Subservience of Individual Am­ bition to Eternal Destiny,' as she is in ice cream soda. But she idn't" Bush Over Buried Treasure. There Is a tradition in Germany that it was customary in the Middle Ages to put an elderberry plant over buried treasure. A farmer at Oela- dorf while plowing close to such a bush unearthed a vessel containing 2,300 silver coins of the eleventh cen­ tury. The' generous never enjoy their pos­ sessions so much as when others are made partakers of them.--Sir W. Jones. TEN YgARS OP PAIN. • Unable to Do Even Housework Be­ cause of Kidney Troubles. Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clin­ ton St, Napoleon, O., saya: "For fifteen years I was a great sufferer from kidney trou­ bles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp, s Iu> o t i n g pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared before me, and I. had dlzsy spells. For ten years I could not do housework, and for two years did not get out of the house. The Kidney se­ cretions were jrregular, and doctors were not helping me. Doan's Kidney Pills brought' me quick relief, and finally cured me. They saved my ilfet^ Sold by all dealers. 60 cents a bo*. Foster-Miilburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y, --" SEEK TO WlfTsOLDIERt. Russian Girls Risk Life for the Cauap of Liberty. , .>« "When the university opened last autumn I started to iwork «ga*n among the soldiers," said the young woman. "As you know, the revolu- • tlonists are at present working very hard to win over the army, and one of the means Is to talk freedom di-r ' rectly to the soldiers. For this girls have been found to be more effective than men; the young peasant soldiers are more willing to listen to glrli, , and are far readier to protect them from arrest So all over Russia hun- ~ dreds and hundreds of girls are now nightly meeting with groups of sol­ diers, in working men's homes and in. barracks. To go into barraScks and talk revolution to the soldiers, hard­ ly anything is so dangerous--for the girl caught" is tried by court-martial and, in a day or two is executed.--- From Leroy Scott's Interview with a Russian Woman, in Everybody^. Man Whose Memory Waa Bad. For more than an hour a witness for the defense had dodged questions. His faulty memory was particularly exasperating for the counsel for the plaintiff, who was seeking to recall to the witness recollection an eVent of four of five years previoua. Event­ ually the man remembered "some­ thing about it" "Ah," continued the lawyer for the plaintiff, "what dd you think of It at the time?" - "Really," said the witness, speak­ ing before the lawyer for the defense had time to interpose objection, "it was so long ago I can't recall exactly what I thought of it." "Well," shouted the cross-examin­ er, excitedly, "If you can't recall, tell us what you think now you thought then." 1 • • tyllllna Hand£- . There is a good story going the rounds in Pittsburg of .a young maa, formerly a stock-broker, who dropped many thousands in speculation during the early spring, Oge night, shortly after going to bed, the Pittsburger was awakened by strange signs. At his first motion to jump up he was greeted by a hoarse voice. "If you stir, you're a dead man!" it said. "I'm looking lof mon­ ey." "In that case," pleasantly answered the erstwhile speculator, "kindly al» low me to arise and strike a light. I shall deem it a favor to be permitted to assist la the search."--Harper's Weekly. A Young Composer. Rachel, aged 12, wrote an compo­ sition on wild flowers in which she praised the arbutus, the liverwort, the spring beauty, the blood root and all of the other blossoms of dell and dale. But she wrote on both sides of her sheet of paper, and when she asked her father, who was an editor, to publish her article, he called her attention to that fact. "You've written on both sides ot your paper," said he. "Well," was the reply, "and don't you print on both sides of yours?" Cats as Plague Preventive. An Italian correspondent of the North China Daily News writes: "The newspapers have latterly been full of all sorts of suggestions for the stamp­ ing out of plague. For instance, never t, kill rats; if you do the fatal rat flea *• may be driven to feed on you. Also, compel each householder to keep cats. In fact, let the cult of the cat as it prevailed in ancient Egypt be re­ vived in India. Plenty at cats, ao rata." Well Qualified. "So you want the position of ad­ vance agent for our circus?" Inter­ rogated the manager. "Well, we need a man who can ftir np some life everywhere he goes." "That's me, boas," hastened the applicant "Had any experience in stirring up life?" "You bet! I usoi to drive a Street sweeper and stirred ftp millions of germs every day." Wagner aa a Curative Agent Vernon Lee has told somewhere the story of the marvelous effects of Wag­ ner on a headache. One does, after a time, succumb to what is a kind of hypnotism; the sound seems almost to clear the air, or at least to lull one into a kind of dream in which only the aense of hearing exists. "Boo Hoo" Shouts the Spanked Baby The <4CoKc" d'̂ 'Collier's" treated by a Doctor of Pivinity. :' • Look for the "Boo Hoo" article in this paper. "There's a Reason/' .- - i y*